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Joan Mitchell Tree I 1992

Name: Joan Mitchell Tree I 1992
Brand: Joan Mitchell
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Color Lithograph on Arches paper. Hand Signed. Numbered with Tyler Graphics blind stamp. Unframed

This impressive Joan Mitchell lithograph, inspired by the French landscape, is pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of 94. Mitchell, now one of the most expensive and collectible female artists in the marketplace today, famously described how trees inspired her during her recovery from illness: "When I was sick they moved me to a room with a window and suddenly through the window I saw two fir trees in a park, and the grey sky, and the beautiful grey rain, and I was so happy. It has something to do with being alive. I could see the pine trees, and I felt I could paint. If I could see them, I felt I would paint a painting.” In fact, "Trees I" is one of the last prints created in Mitchell's life: "Quite ill, yet as productive and fierce as ever, she returned to the Tyler [Graphics] workshop [run by her longtime collaborator and dear friend Ken Tyler] —which had moved to Mt. Kisco, NY—to make what would be her final body of print work...As in painting, Mitchell's strength, precision, and presence as an artist did not flag with her illness; in this last year she made some of the most vigorous and assertive works of her career." - Joan Mitchell Foundation

"...One of the most enduringly successful Abstract Expressionists, and probably the most famous woman associated with the New York School, Joan Mitchell stood apart from her contemporaries for more reasons than just her fiery personality. While artists like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline were exploring an abstraction founded purely in gesture and the human psyche, Mitchell based her paintings on nature, translating it physically and emotionally through her vigorous and lively, though never haphazard, brushwork. Mitchell expressed a love and gratitude to nature throughout her life, and spent the majority of her mature career on a property in the French countryside overlooking the Seine. .." - Courtesy of Artsy Editors, 2014 ("Joan Mitchell's paintings of how trees feel.")

Beautifully floated and framed with UV museum plexiglass.

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Hand signed and numbered on recto (front).